Endive Wombat:johnsoninca: Well, aren't more people buying guns in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre?

OMG yes they are. Walk into any gun store and you will find that almost everything is at least 20% more expensive. Good luck finding reasonably priced ammo too

Fixed. The only way I got a few hundred .22 rounds was buying them online. Every Wal-Mart in Orlando seems to be out of 'em. Dicks is out (heh). Bass Pro is out. And god forbid you need .223 ammo. There's a gun show this weekend, and I usually go just to see what's going on in the insane gun worship world, but I think this one's going to be more lunatic than usual. If I had had the money to invest in five or six Bushmasters, I could probably make about a thousand bucks profit on each of them. It's ridiculous. There's no doubt that Obama has been the best spokesperson the gun industry has ever had. He didn't even have to threaten to ban guns and profits are off the charts.

Endive Wombat:OMG yes they are. Walk into any gun store and you will find that almost everything is at least 20% more expensive. Good luck finding reasonably priced ammo too

If you can find anything. I walked into a LGS yesterday -- a regular gun store, not a pawn store -- and they had MAYBE ten handguns remaining, a couple pump-action long guns and one or two .22 rifles. That's it. They were completely cleaned out of ammo, too.

MaudlinMutantMollusk:Pocket Ninja: The newspaper appears to be dated today, which I guess means this isn't a repeat, but didn't this already happen once? I could have sworn I heard about this happening before.

I'm pretty sure there was another similar incident immediately after the tragedy

Yes, because the pages were finalized days before the shooting. But in this case, there is absolutely no excuse for this placement.

TwistedIvory:Endive Wombat: OMG yes they are. Walk into any gun store and you will find that almost everything is at least 20% more expensive. Good luck finding reasonably priced ammo too

If you can find anything. I walked into a LGS yesterday -- a regular gun store, not a pawn store -- and they had MAYBE ten handguns remaining, a couple pump-action long guns and one or two .22 rifles. That's it. They were completely cleaned out of ammo, too.

I was looking to get a Derringer for my wife to keep in her purse (she leaves work at 8pm and the parking lot is not the best lit)...the cost on them has risen about 40% according to my local gun dealer. He said that I should just wait a few more months when the over production of guns floods the market and prices fall dramatically.

Endive Wombat:TwistedIvory: Endive Wombat: OMG yes they are. Walk into any gun store and you will find that almost everything is at least 20% more expensive. Good luck finding reasonably priced ammo too

If you can find anything. I walked into a LGS yesterday -- a regular gun store, not a pawn store -- and they had MAYBE ten handguns remaining, a couple pump-action long guns and one or two .22 rifles. That's it. They were completely cleaned out of ammo, too.

I was looking to get a Derringer for my wife to keep in her purse (she leaves work at 8pm and the parking lot is not the best lit)...the cost on them has risen about 40% according to my local gun dealer. He said that I should just wait a few more months when the over production of guns floods the market and prices fall dramatically.

ooo, that'd be a good time to stockpile weapons and hold 'em till the next massacre drives up prices again.

Our newspapers should not be running gun ads - including ads for antique and collectible gun shows - next to stories about Sandy Hook. It's insensitive, and it shouldn't have happened. It was an oversight, and we apologize for it. We have taken steps to make sure it doesn't happen again.

It's refreshing that they issued an actual apology and didn't try to make an excuse.

Pocket Ninja:The newspaper appears to be dated today, which I guess means this isn't a repeat, but didn't this already happen once? I could have sworn I heard about this happening before.

Subby here. Glad to have one go green. Only get a couple a year. But what's the coolest is one of my favorite farkers - Pocket Ninja - commented. I really enjoy your rants (I usually don't comment in threads, otherwise you would know this already).

That's not really a gun show so much as an investment collectors show. I doubt there is much for current production AR's and 30rd mags. More along the lines of the sort that navy farker always posts. You'd see Mark Walberg not Mark Wahlberg is what I'm saying.

Endive Wombat:TwistedIvory: Endive Wombat: OMG yes they are. Walk into any gun store and you will find that almost everything is at least 20% more expensive. Good luck finding reasonably priced ammo too

If you can find anything. I walked into a LGS yesterday -- a regular gun store, not a pawn store -- and they had MAYBE ten handguns remaining, a couple pump-action long guns and one or two .22 rifles. That's it. They were completely cleaned out of ammo, too.

I was looking to get a Derringer for my wife to keep in her purse (she leaves work at 8pm and the parking lot is not the best lit)...the cost on them has risen about 40% according to my local gun dealer. He said that I should just wait a few more months when the over production of guns floods the market and prices fall dramatically.

Don't get a derringer, get a dedicated carry pistol with some safety features like an lcp 380. Slightly larger, much safer IMO.

I think the numbers have actually flip-flopped and automobiles now hold a slight lead over guns, but the facts I dug up with all of 45 seconds of Googling start to suggest your statement may best be cited as "where the sun don't shine".

Vegan Meat Popsicle:mjbok: Cars will kill an order of magnitude more kids this year. By your logic are cars bad?

An estimated 32,788 people were killed in traffic accidents in 2010...

...31,224 firearm-related deaths in 2007...

I think the numbers have actually flip-flopped and automobiles now hold a slight lead over guns, but the facts I dug up with all of 45 seconds of Googling start to suggest your statement may best be cited as "where the sun don't shine".

Vegan Meat Popsicle:mjbok: Cars will kill an order of magnitude more kids this year. By your logic are cars bad?

An estimated 32,788 people were killed in traffic accidents in 2010...

...31,224 firearm-related deaths in 2007...

I think the numbers have actually flip-flopped and automobiles now hold a slight lead over guns, but the facts I dug up with all of 45 seconds of Googling start to suggest your statement may best be cited as "where the sun don't shine".

Vegan Meat Popsicle:mjbok: Cars will kill an order of magnitude more kids this year. By your logic are cars bad?

An estimated 32,788 people were killed in traffic accidents in 2010...

...31,224 firearm-related deaths in 2007...

I think the numbers have actually flip-flopped and automobiles now hold a slight lead over guns, but the facts I dug up with all of 45 seconds of Googling start to suggest your statement may best be cited as "where the sun don't shine".

55% of those firearm deaths were suicides which is pretty damn high based on what I'd have guessed.

LoneDoggie:Vegan Meat Popsicle: mjbok: Cars will kill an order of magnitude more kids this year. By your logic are cars bad?

An estimated 32,788 people were killed in traffic accidents in 2010...

...31,224 firearm-related deaths in 2007...

I think the numbers have actually flip-flopped and automobiles now hold a slight lead over guns, but the facts I dug up with all of 45 seconds of Googling start to suggest your statement may best be cited as "where the sun don't shine".

55% of those firearm deaths were suicides which is pretty damn high based on what I'd have guessed.

Vegan Meat Popsicle:mjbok: Cars will kill an order of magnitude more kids this year. By your logic are cars bad?

An estimated 32,788 people were killed in traffic accidents in 2010...

...31,224 firearm-related deaths in 2007...

I think the numbers have actually flip-flopped and automobiles now hold a slight lead over guns, but the facts I dug up with all of 45 seconds of Googling start to suggest your statement may best be cited as "where the sun don't shine".

mizchief:Kind of hard to call them paranoid when the person leading the new round of reactionary gun control legislation said this on 60 mins:

Maybe if you're going to pull a quote to try proving that paranoid gun maniacs aren't really just paranoid gun maniacs you should try pulling one that doesn't condense into "Congress doesn't want to take your guns".

I love the gun debate but no one ever addresses the true problem: Death. More people die from death than any disease, accident or weather event combined. We should ban death. How about violence free zones instead of gun free zones since evidently criminals aren't heeding the current laws. Shouldn't gun control be considered too focused? There are plenty of other ways bad guys are committing heinous crimes. Just sayin yo!

Our newspapers should not be running gun ads - including ads for antique and collectible gun shows - next to stories about Sandy Hook. It's insensitive, and it shouldn't have happened. It was an oversight, and we apologize for it. We have taken steps to make sure it doesn't happen again.

It's refreshing that they issued an actual apology and didn't try to make an excuse.

It would be even more refreshing if everyone didn't get their panties in a wad over something so innocuous as an ad for an antique firearm show running next to a story about a guy who didn't use one.